military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (02/26/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 25 February, 1941 British-led Nigerian troops occupy Mogadishu, capital of Italian Somaliland. They have advanced 355 km in only two days. The port of Brava on the Indian Ocean is also captured. The escort destroyer HMS Exmoor is sunk off Lowestoft by a German torpedo boat. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden visits Turkey. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "I shall never cast my vote to send American manhood across any ocean to fight in any war for the preservation of another nation." - Senator Reynolds